Weird but interesting facts of life
Some are funny facts and some will make you say WTF. But being inconvenient and not useless, all those facts will enrich your knowledge base and help you pass through.
While viewing porn, men tend to focus on a woman’s eyes and lips over breasts or genitals. Researchers speculate that men look at women’s faces to determine how “turned on” the woman is.
The US Military still uses 8 inch floppy disks on outdated IBM computers to run the nuclear missile systems. It's because they are incredibly hard to hack. The computers are essentially air-gapped and the old IBM computers are reliable. They could run for another 40 years with spare parts.
A tombstone dating to 1342AD was found in Eastern China of a woman named "Katarina Vilioni", sister of Antonio and daughter of Domenico. This suggests a thriving Italian community in 14th century China
In the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus," Billy Bucherson coughed up real life moths. He was fitted with a mouth piece, which consisted of a latex pouch that held the dirt and moths.
The T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn't sew or replace buttons
The U-bend (P-trap without a 90 degree bend) used in toilets and sinks to prevent sewage gasses from entering the house was invented by Thomas Crapper
The 10th tallest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis Tennessee
Many MLB managers yell random things at umpires during "arguments" (such as complaining about wine they had an Italian restaurant or how bad their team is) in order to fire up their team while not getting thrown out of the game
The NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut would've got an NC-17 rating if they used more than 400 swear words in their movie, they intentionally used 399 swear words
In the 1930’s, Warner Bros. was looking for an effective way to promote their music catalog. They settled on making animated shorts set to their music — calling it “Looney Tunes”.
When the body of a dead whale (or other large cetacean) falls to below 1'000m/3'000ft, it can form a “whale fall”: a localized ecosystem that supplies sustenance to deep-sea organisms. Creatures can use the carcass as a home, living off of it for decades.
Nostrils split their workload, taking it in turns to take in the lion's share of air, automatically switching every few hours. It's called the 'nasal cycle' and is why one nostril often feels stuffier than the other.
The red liquid in a rare steak isn't blood. It is actually water and a protein called myoglobin.
Punchcards were invented to solve the problem of the 1890 US Census. It took 8 years to process the data of the 1880 census, so Herman Hollerith invented punch cards for tabulation, ushering in the era of data storage, databases, and supercomputers.